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Thanks to our lovely guests who came last night. The Mahjong evening was a great fun while the guest players had learnt some Chinese words, such as, the number from 1 to 9, direction words and other few words in Chinese. We enjoyed the time chatting about as well as the Mahjong game. Here are…

My sister Hong made some Zongzi last week to celebrate Duanwu festival. The delicious Zongzi has reminded me of how we celebrate this festival in China. So I thought I’d like to share some details about Duanwu festival with you. Here are the Zongzi my sister Hong made last week. The students at our Lewes…

I made this piece of calligraphy art yesterday to present it to my son’s dad and all the fathers out there. The drawing shows a father is carrying a child on his back with their hands holding together—-You can feel a father’s love to his…

How quick a kid without any Mandarin Chinese knowledge can learn Chinese characters? Here is Grace (6years old) who I met at today’s Blakers Park fair. She has learnt 10 Chinese characters by using Oracle Drawing&Visual method in about 8 minutes. We made a story together while doing the drawings which she enjoyed. The story…

I have been thinking how to teach young kids learn Chinese characters without loosing fun. In the last half year, fascinated by Chinese oracle bone script, I have been studying and developed a method called Oracle Drawing. All the young students asked: ” Can I do that? ” They want to make the drawings. Here…

I guess as 日 (rì) is one of the most important elements in ancient Chinese people’s life. They made lots of characters with 日 (rì). Here is another one. 日 + 十 ＝ 早 I am sure now you know 日 (rì) means sun. 日 (rì) on top of 十 , we get 早 ….

I worked hard last night to present to you my new character artwork 旦 . You should already know 日 means sun if you have been following my posts. You can see clearly, ”旦” is composed of a ”日” with a underscore “_”. From my artwork here, you can work out straightaway what the underscore…

We know this is 火 fire. Two fires combined together, one atop the other,represents the idea of “a roaring fire.” This is the original meaning of 炎. Then it was extended to mean “burn”; from “burn” it was also extended to mean “burning hot”, blazing! This is 炎. We…